I thought I would introduce you to the reasons I call this blog underfootallthetime. I had planned to start with a different cat but she was uncooperative. We will begin with Kali instead. She is Momma cat to my two others. My husband found her in our local Walmart parking lot and she was in bad shape. He took her to our vet who nursed her back to health to the tune of $400. The first time I saw her she was so small and obviously less than a year old. I figured she was about four monthes and was not concerned with her having gotten pregnant. When we picked her up from the vet I asked them to give her shots. Now my vet trains interns from the Auburn University vet school and I had never met this one before. She acted strange and really did not want to give Kali her vaccinations. Have you ever met a vet who didn't want to give vaccinations? I sure haven't. Then she looked at me and said "well okay," and then did.
Kali was so young and tiny I put her on kitten chow. This turned out to be a good move because that cat started gaining weight rapidly over a four week period and after awhile looked quite pregnant. I was afraid to tell my husband for fear he would freak out, but he finally looked at me and said she looked like a snake that had swallowed its meal whole. That's when he asked me if I thought she was pregnant and I told him I did. The following week I took her to the vet and talked to the one I know. She agreed that Kali was pregnant and that she shouldn't have gotten her shots. I realized the other vet knew and didn't tell me. I think she was afraid I wouldn't take the cat. I was ticked about this because I would have asked for instructions on how to care for her properly. This woman risked my cats health based on a false assumption.
Well, a week later Kali gave birth to four healthy kittens right in the middle of my living room. One was a calico that looked just like her mother but with her markings on the opposite sides. A male orange tabby, a female cream tabby (jessi), and a cream muted calico (sandi). They got to visit a local news program with my vet and run all over the news desk. They had a blast. Kali was a teen mom in cat terms, but she is a healthy sweet cat who thinks that if she walks under my feet on the way to the food bowl somehow she will get fed faster.
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What a sweet kitty! You know, my kids try that trick, too, and all they ever find out is that you get stepped on. Especially with a mom who has lousy peripheral vision.
Maybe the vet who gave her the shots figured it was a safer risk for the cat to get the shots and come home with you then to tell you she was pregnant and possibly be abandoned to die alone in that parking lot? Some people do dump strays if they find out they're pregnant. Maybe she had no way of knowing for sure what you would have done so she gambled? I'm just guessing, obviously, because I don't know.
I think she was afraid I would do something like that or refuse to pay the bill and leave the cat since technically she wasn't mine. It was a big bill.
If it had been the owner vet she would have told me because she and I know each other pretty well. She knows I never would have turned my back on Kali regardless. When I write about Keekee you'll see why. He BTW was the King of the underfooters. I miss him.
biscuit - my kids do it too. My son has learned mom may see him coming but I can't get anywhere if he doesn't move.
Enjoyed the post about your pussy. Wish you had posted a picture of it. Sorry about the shots. Were they painful?
She's such a sweetie! It's hard to believe Keekee's gone. I don't think I can picture your living room without him, actually. I can picture it before kids, between kids, etc., but Keekee sorta came with the house!
Mmmmmmm, cat! It's what's for dinner!
Heheh, just kidding.
An uncooperative cat? Hunh. Go figure.
And Kelly's not kidding!
It wouldn't call her uncooperative but not to smart sometimes yeah. I know Kelly's opinion of cats.
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